How to Draw a Cartoon Chicken with MS Paint

 Posted on February 19, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  590 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Chickens are cute farm animals that are always popular. Drawing chickens on a piece of paper is easy but like most people, you might want to draw it over on the computer instead. You may find drawing chickens on MS Paint a bit vexing but,...

Method 2 of 3:

Using the Shape Tool

  • Picture 8 of How to Draw a Cartoon Chicken with MS Paint Draw a rectangle.
  • This will be your chicken's body base.
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    Add a big oval to the body.

  • Picture 10 of How to Draw a Cartoon Chicken with MS Paint Using a darker color, draw a long horizontal oval for the head.
  • This will be for the shading. If you're using white for the chicken's feather, use gray or light blue for the shadow.
  • I used brown for the primary color and dark brown to the secondary color.
  • Picture 11 of How to Draw a Cartoon Chicken with MS Paint Add the same oval only this time, use the original color.
  • This will make it add more depth to the drawing.
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    Using the dark color, heart shape draw the tail.

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    Like the head, overlap the tail with the same shape but using the original color.

  • Picture 14 of How to Draw a Cartoon Chicken with MS Paint Draw the wings.
  • For the wings, make a heart shape similar to the tail. Use the shadow color for this step.
  • Using the rotate tool, make rotate so that the pointed part of the heart points towards the head.
  • Picture 15 of How to Draw a Cartoon Chicken with MS Paint Using the original feather color, add a smaller heart.
  • Rotate it the same way you did for the previous step.
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    Add another set of overlapping hearts to add more feathers to the wings.

  • Picture 17 of How to Draw a Cartoon Chicken with MS Paint Start adding the comb and wattle.
  • This time, use dark red.
  • For the wattle, I used a single heart flipped horizontally.
  • For the comb, I used 3 hearts. I added 2 short hearts side-by-side and a tall heart in the middle.
  • Picture 18 of How to Draw a Cartoon Chicken with MS Paint Repeat previous step using red color.
  • Adjust the size of the red wattles and comb so that some dark red streaks are visible
  • Picture 19 of How to Draw a Cartoon Chicken with MS Paint Add eyes and beak.
  • For the eyes, I drew some circles with the shape tool with my colors on Black and white.
  • For the beak, I used the diamond shape on the shape tool. I used a darker shade of orange.
  • Picture 20 of How to Draw a Cartoon Chicken with MS Paint Add the upper beak and legs.
  • Using the triangle with the color set to yellow, I added the upper beak.
  • I used the rectangle tool.
  • Picture 21 of How to Draw a Cartoon Chicken with MS Paint Add the feet.
  • Using the rectangle tool, I added two claws for the feet.
  • Picture 22 of How to Draw a Cartoon Chicken with MS Paint Add more feathers.
  • I used the thought bubble shape tool to add some feathers on the chicken's body.
  • Flip it horizontally so that the circles are pointing upwards.
  • Use the shadow color when doing this.
  • Picture 23 of How to Draw a Cartoon Chicken with MS Paint Add the same figure.
  • This time, using the original feather color.

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    General Method

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    Open Microsoft paint.

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    Click on the color yellow and make a filled-in circle. This will be your chicken's head.

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    Make a larger oval below and to the right of the circle

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    Using the brush tool, make a neck for your chicken. Refer to the picture to see what it should look like.

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    Using the polygon tool, make a sideways kite shape for a beak.(Or you can use the line tool)

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    For an eye, make a small black circle in the middle of the head.

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    Click on the line tool and select the thickest line. Make two lines coming down from the body. Add feet by drawing three shorter lines fanning out from each leg.

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    Draw a yellow tail with the brush tool, as shown in the picture. Fill it in with the paint bucket.

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    Using the light orange color, draw a wing. You can also use the light orange color to outline your chicken.

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